Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-04-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

The Chief Burgomaster of Berlin gets
salary equivalent to about $500 per
annnm of our money, exclusive Of an al
lo1ance for rent.
Malviri Bey, the new Turkish Min.
lister to this country, is said to be the
master of six modern European Ian
guages lie prefers English to all the rest.
A postmaster at Cope, Ind, mas re-
signed, but the rush for the succession
is not likely to be great. His salary
amounted to 5 cents less than halt dollar
for the month Of March.
Mr.. C. II. Spurgcon, the London
preacher, was recently invited to come
ove- and address the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly, but declined, say
ing that he was chained to the oar in
his work at home.
One of the oldest men in Government
service is Captain ]. N. Easton, of
Charleston. ILL.,, who has lately been
made Indian Agent at DEVILS Lake,
Dakota. lie is 50 years old, and was a
friend of Abraham Lincoln.
1t is related by the Winsted, Conn.,,
'Herad that lately. while Mrs. Colonel
Nathaniel smith, of Woodbury., was in
attendance upon pubic meeting in the
town hall. she was suddenly impresse d
that she must return home, and did so,
arriving there just in time to prevent
the destruction of her house by fire.
A large number of images of angels
and saints having been introduced into
the Cathedral of st. Giles, at Edinburg,
Scotland, a petition signed by 500 resi-
dents of the parish, was recently pre-
sented to the Edinburg Presbytery, ask.
ing that the courts should take steps to
have these images removed, as enjOined
by the Bible and laws of the national
church.
A few days ago John Workmen, a
farmer of Chatham, Illinois. drew &c.
600 from the bank preparatory to start
ing on cattle-buying trip. Just before
he was to leave home a gentlemanly ap>
pearing man, who said that he was buy
ing land, drove up and asked Workmen
to show him over the farm. Workman
got in the buggy, and the two men rode
together. Soon an elegant two-horse
rig came to the farm, bringing another
ylish>lOoking man, who claimed to be
an agent for the sale of agricultural i'm
plements. TIE three men engaged in
conversation for q while, and suddenly
the strangers seized Workmen, threw
him to the ground, and took from his
pockets ST. 900 in money. They suc-
ceeded in getting away before their vic
tim could give the alarm.
Mott Haven is now a densely popula-
ted part of New York City, but 20
years ago 1t was a rural suburb. 1t
was about that time, says the New York
correspondent of the Philadelphia Rec
ord, that Senate Plunkitt, the present
Democratic representative Of the district
in the State Senate. first ran for the As.
sembly. He was defeated, and he laid
Lis want of success to the fact that the
innumerable caravan of goats ate off his
posters early in the canvass. At the
moment Of his deepest despair a sympa.
thetic old Dutch woman came to him
with word of comfort. George she
whispered, Il tells you what you
does. Ven you runs some more you
yust put little durpentine in dot paste
and de goats cad it not George re-
membered, and the next year, when he
fearlessly ran again, the turpentine went
into the paste. The goats ate up all the
posters with which his adversary, a
German by the name of Fleeke. had lib
orally placarded the district, but spared
the Plunkitt bills, and he was elected.
The indignation of his adversary was
co'ossal. by TAM he cried. de poys
went back on me, and dot was bad but
never drinks dat DO tam goats 60 back
on Q Dutchmaa,'